Am not that politically informed or much interested. But I feel I have to say something here. Why is the world believing that Hon. President R. Mugabe is solely responsible for what is happening in Zimbabwe? Robert Mugabe was once the West's best African statesman and was honoured and facilitated in many ways like honorary degrees from prestigious universities in the West and even was believed to have seen and bought the Holy Grail to Africa, hence the Knighthood by the Queen to Sir R. Mugabe. Then what went wrong?
Whatever went wrong after that, I really don't know in detail, so no comment, but the way the West is reacting reminds me of my previous break ups with my primary (matrix) level girlfriends. We cut links, insult each other, return all we exchanged or spent on each other and our friends have to take sides decisively. We must have experienced this most of us. That is exactly what the West is doing to Mugabe, so childish!
But who is taking the heat of consequences head on? Not Mugabe of course, the hapless citizens of Zimbabwe. If Hon. Col. Muamar Gadaffi was a head of state to a resource-less nation like Zimbabwe, the sanctions would have succeeded to portraying as the Monster the West was desperately trying to convince the world he is. He was once a friend, then a foe, now becoming a friend (an ally) again. The West are really funny!
Sadly they have succeeded in convincing the world that Mugabe is a monster through the plight of his people. I don't blame Mugabe in any many ways so far. Simply objecting the West, specifically Britain and the U.S., earned Zimbabwe this sad fate. Blair knew very well that, amplifying Mugabe's stance on land policies against the minority whites, would be a better pretext to incite a coup against him, change of national guard, to bring in a West lifelong puppet. Blair and his allies knew sanctions on Zimbabwe wouldn't hit Mugabe and force him out of power directly, but instead on the people of Zimbabwe. Blair took the scripts of this game directly from the Exodus in the Bible and played it on Zimbabwe. The Plagues have hard hit the common man who cried to the Pharaoh for help which was not there. This caused resentment and opposition motivated by economic plight borne of the West tailored sanctions!
Why should Mugabe be blamed initially? About the current political turmoil you may blame Mugabe too, but know it is just desperate measures to save one's political soul, a product of the initial plan. Listen unbiasedly to Mugabe and his ZANU-PF's reasons too. The U.S. and the British have a reputation of orchestrating civic revolts, anti-governmental rebels, and insurgencies to oust heads of states they perceived selectively as potential enemies or dangers to their politically created 'national security issues'. If you don't trust me, then research on the Bay of Pigs, Libya's Muamar Gadafi, Tom Mboya versus Jomo Kenyatta, Afghanistan's Taliban-Osama(first ally, now foe), etc. In the Bay of Pigs saga, the U.S. C.I.A. trained rebels, approximately 300 to stage a coup guerrilla army to oust Cuba's president; they launched the badly thwarted mission from the Bay of Pigs. The CIA operatives in Kenya were exalting Mboya against Kenyatta whom they perceived as less friendly to the West, sanctions on Libya and Iraq failed as the economies were self sustaining and eventually turned Osama an enemy and a good pretext to attack and remove to murder the all-might Saddam, they sponsored splinter movements of separatists in the former U.S.S.R. so that the Union would break up and be fragile to reduce any threat politically and economically, etc!
So choosing Zimbabwe aint that new a phenomenon. The sanctions were not aimed at Mugabe but the people of South Africa in general. South African republic is an economic powerhouse recuperating from apartheid and no reason would be justified to target them with a vast white population still there. On the other side Zimbabwe was a fertile land whose oil was food or rather agricultural products. These two nations combined would have lifted South Africans from being over dependant on the West, and that is biblically condemned! So the target cropped up on its own, Mr. Robert Mugabe. Through him they have cut off Zimbabwe from their economic profits based on agriculture. Further sanctions forced many of them to become economic, more than political refugees, to the neighbouring state of South Africa and others where now resources are being exhausted, crime is high, and further economic discomfort aggravated to incite tensions, xenophobic in nature. This will cut out investors and development of S.Africa sighting increased insecurity and violence. The West, particularly America and the UK had considered all this all along. Their best tool in such petty nations that don't need warships or missiles to conquer, are the agents of propaganda, the press. They exaggerate everything good about the West and worst about the Africans (Mugabe) and the world buys it because our local media channels are poor to reach the world.
I wish we all blame also the west for their contributions in the Zimbabwean mess. And now even the international sports giant organisations like the International Cricket Council (ICC) for helping UK (England) wage its cold war on Zimbabwe. It is Taibu, playing cricket for Zimbabwe, not Mugabe. and the money earned would help his family and relations. So if Zimbabweans are banned from participating in sports activities, who is being punished here? It defeats logic if a country's government interferes with cricket management, they are banned by the world governing body of cricket; but here cricket wants to interfere with the government's policies!
Anyway, leave Mugabe with his Zimbabwe first, assure him of his autonomy and political autonomy, and you will have Zimbabwean democracy (not UK's or US's democracy) restored!
Kiswahili for a place of convergence, these are the voices of Africa you don't hear...
Friday, July 4, 2008
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